Eissler claims for psychoanalysis that its proper use and application by society could give rise to a new culture and assure the survival of the West, thus preventing its inevitable decline and fall, the fate suffered by all preceding civilizations. He acknowledges that this is unlikely because psychoanalysis has not, despite its benefits and influences, been really integrated by society. Only a distorted 'mythological equivalent' has become popular. Man's narcissistic rigidities seen, for example, in nationalism, racism, religion, and property institutions, make objectivity toward cultural values impossible. Without it, according to Eissler, there can be no acceptance of the same application of science to psychology as to the physical and biological—just as Hanns Sachs speculated that